First Day of Concurrent

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mine cried. Camera set up to look at the back of the teacher while she teaches the classroom. One teacher forgot the virtual kids were there. I've told my child to be patient for a few days and see if it gets better, but personally it looked very clearly like the focus will be in-class and those online can just follow along.

Your kid cried because your paranoia kept them out of school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine cried. Camera set up to look at the back of the teacher while she teaches the classroom. One teacher forgot the virtual kids were there. I've told my child to be patient for a few days and see if it gets better, but personally it looked very clearly like the focus will be in-class and those online can just follow along.

Then go into school

With the concurrent model all kids will be virtual more than they are in person.

So for 50% of the time the kids at home should suck it up? It can be addressed especially with caring teachers, but wasn't a promising start.

[Anonymous]

Super positive vibes here!! It was amazing seeing all the smiles and happy faces in person!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine cried. Camera set up to look at the back of the teacher while she teaches the classroom. One teacher forgot the virtual kids were there. I've told my child to be patient for a few days and see if it gets better, but personally it looked very clearly like the focus will be in-class and those online can just follow along.

Then go into school

With the concurrent model all kids will be virtual more than they are in person.

So for 50% of the time the kids at home should suck it up? It can be addressed especially with caring teachers, but wasn't a promising start.

I think people need to wait at least one day before they decide that kids at home are being neglected. There was a very real need to go over the in-school procedures today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine cried. Camera set up to look at the back of the teacher while she teaches the classroom. One teacher forgot the virtual kids were there. I've told my child to be patient for a few days and see if it gets better, but personally it looked very clearly like the focus will be in-class and those online can just follow along.

Then go into school

No. They don't have to "go into school." Complain to admin, PP. Go up the chain if necessary. They will fix it. They don't get to shortchange your child because of selfish people demanding their kids be in buildings at all costs (cue pathetic, predictable rants about how OMG OUR KIDS HAVE SUFFERED SOOOO MUCH IN DL NOW IT'S YOUUUUUR TURN." Ignore them. Hold the school accountable).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous




I’m a teacher. It was a little hectic, and I can see how that would (kind of unfairly) affect the virtual students. We are going to get better, and things will be smoother. I have to say, I really, really enjoyed seeing their faces. (I’m in high school, so haven’t gotten too much of that.)

This.
It's extremely hard to teach two groups of students in different places at the same time. This was just the first day.

Then they should ahem met one teacher stay virtual like originally planned and not do concurrent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine cried. Camera set up to look at the back of the teacher while she teaches the classroom. One teacher forgot the virtual kids were there. I've told my child to be patient for a few days and see if it gets better, but personally it looked very clearly like the focus will be in-class and those online can just follow along.

Then go into school

No. They don't have to "go into school." Complain to admin, PP. Go up the chain if necessary. They will fix it. They don't get to shortchange your child because of selfish people demanding their kids be in buildings at all costs (cue pathetic, predictable rants about how OMG OUR KIDS HAVE SUFFERED SOOOO MUCH IN DL NOW IT'S YOUUUUUR TURN." Ignore them. Hold the school accountable).

Someone has some anger issues. Let me guess you’re part of stay closed forever. We’re THRIVING with DL 😂😂

[Anonymous]

No child should be in DL. It’s not developmentally appropriate and no child is thriving. Ask this question to any pediatrician or child psychiatrist. Parents stop being paranoid and get your kids back to school with a mask. Enough is enough. 75 percent of the country is back.

[Anonymous]

My kid said it was great, but I think they used the ipad too much during the day. The teacher initially tried to have them on MS teams during class so the virtual kids could see them, but it was way too echoy so they stopped that. But then during asychronous time they just had them do dreambox instead of actually doing the work on canvas (but my kid may hav ebeen confused about this) and he had to do that at homework, which is annoying. Anyway, he had fun which is all that really matters but just frustrating if he uses pen/paper all day in virtual and non in hybrid.

But it was the first day and they will figure things out I am sure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No child should be in DL. It’s not developmentally appropriate and no child is thriving. Ask this question to any pediatrician or child psychiatrist. Parents stop being paranoid and get your kids back to school with a mask. Enough is enough. 75 percent of the country is back.

We have been told there is no way to get into school if we selected virtual. We wanted to stick with her teacher. We were very unsure months ago, but can do nothing about it now.

[Anonymous]

We are still waiting on the voice amplifiers which will help with sound. They are apparently back ordered.

[Anonymous]

My kids both had a great first day back. Elementary student said she barely spent any time on the ipad, and middle schooler said there was very little time other than one class where the teacher is teaching virtually (which I'm not complaining about). Both got to eat lunch outside. Our schools had it really well organized today from everything I could see.

[Anonymous]

My kid had a great day - first time in her new middle school. She was so excited to meet her teachers in person. I'm sure some will scoff at this, but I really appreciate everything APS has done to get us to hybrid. Fingers crossed.

[Anonymous]

Concurrent is a stupid model for a stupid school district. Period. Teachers cannot worry about kids in virtual who are safe at home with parental supervision when they have real kids right in front of them that they are physically responsible for and have to watch every second of every day. This is why we are leaving for private. FCPS is just incompetent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Concurrent is a stupid model for a stupid school district. Period. Teachers cannot worry about kids in virtual who are safe at home with parental supervision when they have real kids right in front of them that they are physically responsible for and have to watch every second of every day. This is why we are leaving for private. FCPS is just incompetent.

That's funny, I clicked on the wrong forum and all the descriptions were so awful I just assumed I was in the right place (fcps). We start next week. I hope it's better but not counting on it.